Results 1-20 of 27 for cork speaker:Alan Farrell

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (30 Jan 2024)

Alan Farrell: ...facilities throughout the country are doubling up, which is not ideal. Is there a plan in that regard, notwithstanding the new wings that have been added to at least two prisons, Limerick and Cork, in recent years? Will the Minister outline any further investment in infrastructure to try to accommodate prisoners as humanely and appropriately as possible?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (22 Jun 2023)

Alan Farrell: ...that particular ambition. As I said a number of different lines around the country could benefit from additional tracking, particularly the northern commuter line to Belfast but also the likes of Cork and elsewhere.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (25 Jan 2023)

Alan Farrell: 178. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the acreage for land use and square meterage for building use that will be required for the planned elective hospitals in Cork and Galway, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3563/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Alan Farrell: ...of this process? I put myself into the final category. I remember seeing campaign signs, ten or 15 years ago, around various parts of rural Ireland. I am pretty sure one of them was in west Cork. I certainly remember them in Mayo and Roscommon which would be on my route to Louisburgh where I have been going for 25 years. Is ignorance one of the biggest barriers? If one looks at the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (3 Mar 2022)

Alan Farrell: 96. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the detail of the new routes from Cork, Dublin, Shannon, Donegal, Kerry and Ireland West Knock airports introduced since restrictions on non-essential international travel were lifted in July 2021 [12144/22]

Health (Amendment) Act 2021: Motion (27 May 2021)

Alan Farrell: ...of jobs potentially at risk because it is not just pilots, cabin crew or ground crew that are at risk, but the businesses associated with the sector and with aircraft landing and taking off in Dublin, Cork and Shannon. This is not to mention the huge impact a lack of connectivity will have in certain areas, particularly in the regions, like Shannon, if airlines withdraw aircraft on the...

International Travel and Aviation: Statements (25 May 2021)

Alan Farrell: ...in the sector as quickly as possible, many more jobs will be at risk, not just those jobs that were lost in Shannon Airport last week. There is the potential for more job losses and those will be in Cork and Dublin in the very near future unless we give certainty to the sector. It requires time to plan the recovery. I commend Recover Irish Aviation for putting forward such a well put...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (6 May 2021)

Alan Farrell: ...; (5) Deputy Neasa Hourigan - steps to curb the amount of planning allocated to build-to-rent developments; (6) Deputy Michael Creed - site acquisitions for primary and secondary schools in Ballincollig, Cork; (7) Deputy Pauline Tully - updating SI 225 of 1993 boarding out regulations in relation to older people; (8) Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor - when the review of income thresholds...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Special Needs Education: Discussion (13 Apr 2021)

Alan Farrell: ...and beyond what was expected of them in their support of children with additional educational needs and autism. I acknowledge that. Deputy Ó Laoghaire outlined difficulties with anticipation of demand in Cork. I can look at north County Dublin and say that there are difficulties in communities such as Skerries and across the board in rural areas where secondary schools outside of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (22 Jul 2020)

Alan Farrell: 182. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will address concerns raised in recent reports citing major non-compliance issues at a child protection and welfare service in County Cork; the measures being taken to rectify the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17520/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Alan Farrell: ...acknowledge a group of students present in the Public Gallery today on International Children's Day, namely, Andrea Radu, Scoil Mhuire, Buncrana, County Donegal; Anna Crowley, Scoil Phobail, County Cork; Courtney O'Connor, the King's Hospital School;. Daniel Fitzgerald Bell, Belvedere College; and Patrick McGrath, Coláiste an Chroí Naofa, County Cork. They are very welcome....

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Farrell: ...) Deputy Gino Kenny - to discuss commencement of the medical cannabis access programme; (12) Deputies Mick Barry and Michael McGrath - to discuss the job losses recently announced at Novartis in County Cork; (13) Deputies Bríd Smith, Eamon Ryan and Catherine Martin - to discuss the proposed Shannon liquified natural gas, LNG, terminal and importation of fracked gas; (14) Deputy Pat...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Child Safeguarding Issues in Scouting Ireland: Tusla and Scouting Ireland (13 Mar 2019)

Alan Farrell: ...needs, special or otherwise. In the light of the transformational change it is going through, it is appropriate for me to say that yesterday when I was chatting to a former scout leader from Cork, the way in which volunteers had dealt with issues that can be alarming for ordinary members, particularly those which have ended up on the front pages of newspapers, was acknowledged. I am sure...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Service 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (6 Mar 2019)

Alan Farrell: It might be difficult for the Minister to recall the following, but one of her officials might be able to support her on it. There was a pilot trial of an after-school care service in County Cork, which a former Chairman of this committee and now Minister of State with responsibility for older people, Deputy Jim Daly, discussed here a couple of years ago. Does the Department have any...

Directly Elected Mayors: Statements (24 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: ...could be in a mess. It is imperative that there be that interface between councillors. The question of pay for local authority members and mayors is important. I would hate to create a mayor of Cork city or county or Limerick city or county who would be paid less than the role deserved, which would be at chief executive or county manager level. On the interface with other...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (28 Nov 2018)

Alan Farrell: ...in the south east; (7) Deputy Frank O'Rourke - to discuss housing development in Celbridge, County Kildare; (8) Deputy Billy Kelleher - to discuss the reconfiguration of the An Post mail centre in Cork; (9) Deputy Mattie McGrath - to discuss the redevelopment of St. Patrick's Hospital in Cashel and the closure of St. Brigid's Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir; (10) Deputy Louise O'Reilly - to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Alan Farrell: ...is for. How many of those facilities will be delivered for €60 million? Does Mr. McCarthy have an idea of where they will be located? Are we looking primarily at the major cities, namely, Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway or are there other locations where there is proposed provision?

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (16 Oct 2018)

Alan Farrell: ...cannabis access programme; (14) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the crisis in Yemen; (15) Deputy Margaret Murphy O'Mahony - to discuss the closure in November of the credit union branch in Drimoleague, west Cork, which will leave many people, particularly elderly people, without a banking service in the village and how such a decision can be justified when so many facilities have already...

Topical Issue Matters (13 Jun 2018)

Alan Farrell: ...Tom Neville - the need to increase the number of hospital beds at University Hospital Limerick; (3) Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire - to discuss the need for a multidisciplinary team at Scoil Cara, Cork; (4) Deputy Noel Rock - to discuss the Dublin BusConnects plans for compulsory purchase orders; (5) Deputy Thomas Byrne - to discuss the waiting lists for speech and language services and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: I welcome Professor Barry O'Sullivan, director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics in the department of computer science in University College Cork, UCC, and Dr. Mary Aiken, adjunct associate professor at the University College Dublin, UCD, Geary Institute for public policy and academic adviser to the European Cybercrime Centre at Europol. I thank the witnesses for appearing before the...